Saturday, April 23, 2005

YOU think We are the 'BEST' Techies in IT

For those of us who think Indian's are the world's best softwareengineers, heres an eye opener. The ACM (association of computingmachinery) conducted a world level programming competition in whichall universities from around the world took parthttp://icpc.baylor.edu/icpc/Finals/

Now many INdian colleges took part too - but the only 2 in the top 100list were IIT Chennai (62nd position) and IIT Bombay (72). For thoseof our friends in Ontario Canada, one of their colleges kicked butt -the Univ of Waterloo came in third (congrats guys). Iran came 10th.China had many colleges in top 10. Russia ofcourse was the topper.Argentina came 35th, Singapore (Nat Univ) 36th and Bangladesh came in40. Here's the hard truth - We show up on everyone's radar, notbecause of quality, but because of volume. Indian consulting companiescharge dirt low prices and thats how they get projects. Its time wegot our shit straight.